"See what the omission of four keystrokes can do?" he said.
Four keystrokes and the green becomes purple, the blue background fades to the azure of a summer sky.
Don't you?" "I'm not the one who's four keystrokes away from losing everything," the nurse said.
These findings suggest that the typists used chunking to make two keystrokes per hiragana character rather than four keystrokes per whole hiragana word.
This analysis might reveal that chunking is more readily available for a hiragana character (a pair of keystrokes) than for a hiragana word (four keystrokes).
RT was largest, and the three remaining latencies were short, indicating the use of partial chunking for the four keystrokes; however, L3 was larger than L2 and L4 [ ts(11) > 6.5, ps <.001].
Therefore, this task required the typists to type four keystrokes of four alphabet letters for each hiragana word, consisting of a pair of hiragana characters (based on a hierarchical structure in Japanese hiragana words; see Fig. 1 for a comparison of typing in Japanese and English).
For example, in the case of "musi" (four keystrokes), the hiragana characterむis resolved from the pair of alphabet letters m and u; the hiragana character しis decomposed from the pair of alphabet letters s and i.> -wrap-foot> tabletable indicates the typical pattern of hiragana characters, arranged according to their consonant and vowel components in the Japanese language.
In this task, Japanese college students received training in typing words consisting of a pair of hiragana characters with four keystrokes, using the alphabetic input method, while keeping the association between the keys and typists' finger movements; the task was constructed so that chunking was readily available.
The alphabet letters in italics denote the overlapped mapping between the hiragana character and the alphabet letters included in the hiragana word Consequently, the typists needed to type four keystrokes for a Japanese word consisting of a pair of hiragana characters (e.g., かて, kate).
